Nokia has sent out press invities announcing a new Lumia event scheduled for 14th of May.

The invite does not reveal much other than it is calling the press members to "see what's next" as "the Nokia Lumia story continues". The event is scheduled for May 14th in London, UK and with the recent leaks of the Lumia EOS and aluminum unibody it is quite likely that we might see the big Nokia comeback.

Since it is a Lumia event, it is also quite unlikely that we will see Nokia's push in the tablet market but according to previous leaks that will eventually happen as well.

In any case, be sure to mark the 14th of May as it might be quite an interesting announcement.

The US press is ramping up a PR offensive on the UN in a bid to put the fear of God into those who think the World owns the Internet. To be fair the UN idea is not that great for the universe either, particularly as it has the backing of such leading human rights based countries such as China, and Russia.

But at the same time the fear that the US has of handing over the world wide web to the UN is equally as dumb. The way things are, the US president could switch off the Internet because of some nonsense that they came up with the original idea.

If you look at the press this morning, it seems the majority of them fear a UN controlled internet more than they do another Celine Dion album. But if you scratch the surface you discover the reason that they are so against it is a rumor that the UN is thinking of taxing big IT corporations, such as Google, to pay to make sure the world has broadband. So the big tech outfits, who pay little tax to anyone, immediately rush to complain to their congressman to end this sort of talk now.

Currently the Internet is monitored by a largely apolitical private company, which is all well and good. However the US has an input into that body, and at the end of the day it still sings the Star Spangled Banner more than it hums the March of the Volunteers.

The move to shift control of the Internet to a UN commission does make a lot of sense. The world really does own the Internet, not just one country. The difficulty will be how such a commission would make things work in a way that would keep such technology neutral.

Meanwhile the press is muttering all sorts of fear stories about what will happen if those nasty communists in the UN get their way. In fact it is possible that with the right commission, it really could make broadband internet open, free and global.

Nintendo has confirmed that in addition to the Wii U GamePad it will also be offering a regular controller. The controller, interestingly enough, will be called the Nintendo Wii U Pro Controller. The news isn’t surprising, as Nintendo claims that they want to court hardcore gamers that have shunned the Nintendo in the recent past.

The Wii U Pro Controller bears a striking resemblance to an Xbox 360 controller and given the fact that the 360 controller is so popular, it is not surprising that Nintendo decided to emulate something close to the 360 controller design.

We don’t know much more about the Pro Controller yet, but we suspect that there actually isn’t much more to tell beyond the fact that the introduction of the Pro Controller this early in the game solidifies that Nintendo believes this is necessary at the start to attract hard core game players. The question is what games they will play; and we will learn more about that at the Nintendo press conference at E3.

They have not buried Steve Jobs yet, but the Tame Apple press appears to have turned on its favourite company. While the press is full of tributes to Jobs which are just bizarre - he did not invent the mouse, the PC, the tablet or the smartphone - the Tame Apple Press is being less than nice about Apple's future without its Messiah.

According to Reuters, death of Apple's "inspirational leader" is likely to have a deep impact on the maker of the iPod, iPhone and iPad, giving major rivals a greater chance to catch up with the technology giant. Reuters claims that Steve Jobs' creative spirit was so closely tied to the fortunes of Apple that his death means everything is going to drop down the loo.

Kim Young-chan, an analyst at Shinhan Investment in Seoul said that it was "Jobs' Apple, not Apple's Jobs." Simon Liu, deputy investment officer of Polaris Group's fund unit said that Apple no longer has someone as creative and ambitious as Jobs that they can rely on.

We noticed that there was a change amongst the Tame Apple Press when, for the first time, it reported accurately that the iPhone 4S was the same as the iPhone 4 and a waste of dosh. There were some acceptions.

The New York Times loyally waded into the doubters as did Cnet, but the Wall Street Journal was, for the first time negative. Reuters, which normally would be wetting itself about how well a new iPhone was doing admitted that the iPhone 4S failed to wow fans and investors and some analysts said the rare loss of momentum could give rivals room to push their products.

The reality distortion field around Apple started to crumble after Steve Jobs announced he was quitting the Cargo cult. Normally Messiahs leave their religion it is feet first, unless the death of choice was crucifixion, or dismemberment, but in this case Steve appears to have finally admitted that he is too sick to continue.

Based on that news the Apple share price fell as investors suddenly realised that there was no way that the outfit could make the sort of profits that sustain that over valued shareprice. With Jobs in control, miracles were possible, they reasoned, but their was no way that a mortal like Tim Cooke could pull that feat off.

The Tame Apple Press rushed to the company's aid, digging up analysts who claim that Apple will do as well as Christianity did after the death of Jesus. We were half expecting one to say “in 2000 years your children will be sexually assaulted by a true and holy staff member of an Apple store, just like you get in the Roman Catholic church today.”

The truth of the matter is that Jobs encouraged a cult of personality based around his marketing. He built a religion where happiness was found by spending huge amounts of dosh on gadgets and attacking other people who did not support your decision.

Once he removed himself from that position, people had to look at Apple as the toymaking outfit it really is and wonder if it can really make it in the cut and thrust world of technology. Apple was just about marketing, which it was very good at. If it can continue that growth, without Jobs, we will be very surprised.

Codemasters apparently could not wait any longer for fans to get a taste of what to expect, with the upcoming release of Dirt 3 set to arrive this Tuesday in North America and Friday in Europe. With the press embargo lifted early, a number of reviews are hitting all over the place; and the initial take on the title is exceptionally positive with all of the early reviews giving the game ‘9s’ and using words such as “Excellent” and “Outstanding.”

The news had to be very good for Codemasters, who are looking to capitalize on the significant success that Dirt 2 had last time around. Dirt 3 is said to build upon Dirt 2, but bring in some of the old rally racing elements that fans of the previous releases felt were missing from Dirt 2 with its far more X-Games like approach. Dirt 3 also still features Ken Block and the Gymkhana-style stunt driving that he made famous as a new addition for this release.

The game adds more cars, locations, routes, and events than ever seen in any previous release. The game will be available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC when it arrives later this week. With all of the praise that the title is receiving, it is definitely one title that is worth checking out if you are a racing fan.

A report that hackers were planning to take down more services in Sony's empire of the weekend were stuffed up when the news of the plan hit the press.

Apparently Sony secured the servers this group claims it had access to, shutting off any avenues for another attack.One of the members in the Internet Relay Chat channel the group uses said that Sony saw an article because the last server that he could access was offline and probably had been patched.

Reports that a group of hackers believed to be involved in the intrusion on PlayStation Network was planning yet another attack on Sony, started to surface late last week. The target was an unspecified company Web site, with the goal of posting any information they could find somewhere online.

The attacks were made in retaliation for its handling of the PlayStation Network breach.

The tame Apple press is getting all moist over what Steve Jobs is going to announce on Wednesday.

It is only in Apple land where a press conference generates enthusiasm. Normally a press event is an excuse for hacks to start sharpening knives, but for some reason Jobs' gets speculation and excitement.

Reading through what hacks are predicting for Wednesday's event, most seem think we will be looking at a new iPod touch with forward and backward cameras (hooray). There is nothing really new or exciting in this and the only reason we think it will be this is because September is always used for announcing iPods.

However there is talk that Jobs will try and peddle his super cool and magical iTV product which some of the Mac press insist will kill off cable. Quite why is anyone's guess. Last we heard the plan was to pay 99 cents to download a single episode of content onto a comparatively low res screen. This requires users to have a favourite program in the first place something that they usually get by flicking through 200 cable channels.

Generally these press conferences are an embarrassment to journalism. It is when we see how much Apple has infiltrated the US media and how much of a free ride it has given him.